TU7: What's 'Next' for Google Apps Script

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The state of script looks healthy! At Google Cloud Next '17 there were several announcements and presentations about Google Apps Script. These included the Apps Script roadmap for 2017, announcements for Gmail Add-ons, Hangouts Chat bots and Google Slides Add-ons.

Highlights

Dissecting the Google Apps Script Roadmap

At Google Cloud Next '17 there were several announcements and presentations about Google Apps Script. These included the Apps Script roadmap for 2017. In this clip we discuss the announced roadmap including limited auth scopes and the professionalization of Google Apps Script development for enterprise.

Gmail Add-ons and the future of add-ons development

In this clip from Totally Unscripted we discuss the announcement of Gmail Add-ons at Google Cloud Next '17. We look at how Gmail Add-ons achieve cross platform functionality by implementing a UIApp style interface and discuss if these framework might be extended so it can be used in add-ons for Docs, Sheets and Forms.

Google Cloud Functions and Google Apps Script

In this clip we discuss the new Google Cloud Functions and how they might be used with Google Apps Script to delegate tasks. Google describe Cloud Functions as "a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution that allows you to create small, single-purpose functions that respond to Cloud events". Cloud Functions are written in JavaScript, like Google Apps Script, the difference being they are execute in a Node.js runtime.